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He said: “I always felt that one of the mistakes of the film version was that it was too big and too loud and too Jim Carrey-centric.

“I always thought what was great about the books were that they were about the kids. I felt the movie let the kids disappear in the whole Jim Carrey of it all.

“Jim's a really great actor, but I felt that the movie fell in love with that aspect, and as brilliant as Neil [Patrick Harris, the TV show’s Count Olaf] is, he's one of many brilliant actors in the show, and the reason the show works is that everyone's good.”

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Lemony Snicket director: ‘Too much Jim Carrey SPOILED the movie’

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Barry standing behind Daniel at the Lemony Snicket TV show premiere

Barry added: “The movie, it just got too big and loud, and I wanted our television series to feel more like a storybook.

“That's why we filmed everything on stage, and to feel like you were turning pages of a book.”

Speaking about the new TV series, Barry said: “The masterplan is if the first season does well, for three seasons that represents the total of 13 books across 26 hours. So each book would have two hours.

The first season will cover books 1 to 4 in A Series of Unfortunate Events, with the second focusing on 5 to 9 and the third and final finishing with books 10 to 13.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is released on Netflix today.